Ransomware is a sophisticated type of malware attack designed to extort money from victims. Ransome code gains access to a victim’s computer or network and then proceeds to block the individual or organization from accessing their own system.

As Tropical Storm Harvey continues to devastate southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana, many people are looking for ways to help. Many great organizations are helping support the efforts. But do your homework on where you want to donate and avoid the copycats.

The annual White Hat convention draws hackers of all types to Las Vegas every year. This year was no different. For the last two weeks of July, three different hacker conventions drew white hats, grey hats, and even black hat hackers to the casinos and convention halls.

Cyber criminals are finding new ways to exploit the similarities between the registration and password reset processes to compromise accounts on a number of popular websites and mobile messaging applications.

Malvertising attacks are based on trusted destinations as lures, entrapping their victims as other exploits are working behind the scenes. Malvertising attacks work because there is low recognition of this indirect attack method. What to do?